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Author's Purpose
Text Organization
The Day of the Test
Reading Strategies
All About Words
100
When an author writes and gives "just the facts ma'am!"
What is inform?
100
What is it called when an author presents a dilemma and also suggests a way to solve it?
What is Problem - Solution?
100
What you will do the night before your tests.
What is Get a Good Night's Sleep?
100
Quickly looking over the title, headings, illustrations, and captions of a text before you start to read.
What is Previewing?
100
A letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
What is Prefix?
200
When an author writes to tell a story that the reader will enjoy.
What is entertain?
200
What is it called when the author explains why something happened and explains the results of that action?
What is Cause - Effect?
200
What you will do the morning of your test.
What is Eat a Good Breakfast?
200
Making a guess about what might happen next based on clues from the text.
What is Predicting?
200
A letter or group of letters that comes at the end of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
What is Suffix?
300
When an author writes to convince the reader to do something specific.
What is persuade?
300
The author presents events in the order in which they happened. ( time order) First…… Next….. Last…..
What is Sequence...Chronological Order?
300
What you will do during your test.
What is Use your Strategies and Brain?
300
Deciding what the writer wanted to achieve: To teach or inform, To convince the audience about something, To amuse or entertain
What is Determining Author's Purpose?
300
A word or part of a word from which other words are formed.
What is Root Word?
400
When an author writes to tell how they feel about a specific subject.
What is express?
400
The author asks a series of questions and gives a response for each.
What is Question & Answer?
400
What you will do if you feel nervous before, during, or after the test.
What is relax, take deep breaths and remind yourself you can do it!
400
Making reasonable conclusions based on available facts and clues.
What is Inferencing?
400
A word that has more than one meaning. You must pay close attention to the context in which the word is used. Example: saw, fall, bark, slip, lean
What is Multiple Meaning Words?
500
What was the author's purpose for our Red TAKS book assignment yesterday (The Man on the Ten Dollar Bill)?
What is inform?
500
The author tells how two things are alike and how they are different.
What is Compare - Contrast?
500
The names of the teachers who are believe you are smart and awesome.
Mrs. Branch, Mrs. Humphrey, Ms. Potts, Ms. Somers and any teacher that you have ever had at Sherrod!
500
Figuring out the meaning of a word by looking at the way it is used in the sentence.
What is Using Context Clues?
500
A word or group of words that is not literal. Ex: It was boiling hot outside.
What is figurative language?